Three Brothers Bakery
After World War II, three brothers, Sigmund "Selig" Jucker, Sol "Solomon" Jucker, and Max "Meier" Jucker immigrated to the United States. When they arrived in Houston, they started to work as bakers. However, the history of the Jucker brothers begins in Poland, in a building in which Napoleon had spent a night. They were the fourth generation to work in a bakery that operated between 1825 and 1939. It was known as Krakowska Piekarnia, and according to family tradition, was last known as Moshe "Morris" Jucker's Bakery.
Generations of the Jucker family worked in the bakery in Poland from an early age until the Nazi regime ended the family business. From 1939 through 1945, the family was placed in various concentration camps. The brothers' parents, Moshe Baruch and Blima Siegel Jucker, were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps and did not survive the war. The three brothers and their older sister, Gusta Jean, were the only survivors of the Jucker family.
On May 5, 1949, the brothers boarded the USAT Marine Jumper bound for the port of Boston, MA. On May 8, 1950, the brothers opened Three Brothers Bakery at 1411 Holman Avenue in Houston. In about 1954, the brothers moved the bakery from Homan Avenue to Almeda street and then in May 1960, they moved to its current location on South Braeswood Boulevard.
The award-winning bakery produces kosher eastern European style breads and pastries, cookies, cupcakes, specialty desserts, wedding and birthday cakes. Currently, the family owns three bakeries in Houston at 4036 South Braeswood Boulevard, 12393 Kingsride Lane, and 4606 Washington Avenue. They have approximately 70 full-time and part-time employees who work for the bakery in production and sales.